Which of the following was not an impetus for exploration in the 1450s?
A. new maritime technology
B. the whaling industry
C. a new profit motive among merchants
D. the zeal to spread Christianity
B. the whaling industry
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Which of the following is true of an amino acid at a pH above its isoelectric point?
A) It will have a negative charge. B) It will be electrically neutral. C) It will have a positive charge. D) We cannot predict its charge.
What type of rock forms from the solidification of molten material?
A) sedimentary B) igneous C) clastic D) foliated E) metamorphic
Afghanistan was set up by the British in the late 1800s to be a _____________ between the British Indian Empire and the expanding Russian empire.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The two largest language families in the world are
A) Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. B) Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European. C) Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan. D) Balto-Slavic and Sino-Tibetan. E) Altaic and Nilo-Saharan.